Month: October 2017

A policeman locked up for stealing five bulletproof vests

A security assistant from Nantes is in prison on suspicion of stealing sensitive materials from the police station in order to return him to a city in Nantes. This is a case that has been carefully kept secret for a good week. The police in Nantes arrested one of his families. A 26-year-old security assistant suspected of stealing five bulletproof safety vests, tear gas and even a secure radio. He was indicted and detained. In the corridors of the central police station, stupefaction is in order.

 

The story is first of one or two vests that disappear, several weeks ago, from the secure room where they are stored. It’s a room that opens with a magnetic badge. We do not enter as in a mill. If they were not lost, then it was someone from “home”.  Departmental Security investigators set a trap to confuse the unscrupulous policeman. They placed GPS tags on the remaining vests. Bingo: a vest on which was a snitch was embarked. The investigators only had to follow the digital signal. They called this colleague on August 30th.

 

This Thursday, this young man who presents himself as “fragile psychologically” has presented to the room of the instruction of Rennes a request for release. On the bottom, he recognizes the flights. He claims to have handed sensitive reflective material to a man in the Clops Thoreau district, south of Nantes. One way, defends the policeman, to avoid pressures that offenders of the city would impose on members of his family.

 

The investigation is nevertheless far from complete. Was the security assistant able to receive cocaine in exchange for his services? This is a question, raised before the investigating chamber on Thursday morning, which will have to be purged.

 

This young policeman in reflective vest has already made a lot of talk about him. Never outlawed, he has already gone to Discipline Committee. But this bodybuilding enthusiast also distinguished himself for his good and loyal services. He had participated in the rescue of a mother, savagely attacked by an unbalanced armed with a knife, in Raze, spring 2016.

 

Driver license, safety vest and warning triangle for car

It is not enough to have your driver’s license, insurance certificate and registration certificate to be in good standing. Are you driving in a car? Check that you have a fluorescent safety vest and a warning triangle, which are required in the event of an accident.

 

And no question of letting your vest in your trunk, “The driver shall wear a high visibility vest when he is required to leave a vehicle stopped on the road or its surroundings following an emergency stop. Handy, “says a decree of 29 September 2008. The warning triangle must be positioned thirty meters from the obstacle to be signaled. “The obligation to set up the triangle does not apply when this action constitutes a manifest risk of the driver”, nuance the decree of September 30, 2008. Nothing specifies the place where should be the triangle of signaling when you do not need it.

 

You risk a fixed fine of 135 Euros -90 Euros in case of quick payment, in the absence of this equipment. If Article R. 234-7 of the Highway Code requires drivers to “justify the possession of a breathalyzer, not used, available immediately”, nothing sanctions it. The spare wheel and the repair kit are not mandatory. Rest assured, you do not need to have a warning triangle… especially if you do not have the necessary storage space.

 

The reflective vest is mandatory, whether you wear it or it is stowed. The driver of a “vehicle with two or three motorized wheels or a motor quadricycle without bodywork must have this vest on him or in a storage of the vehicle”, approves article R. 416-19 of the Code of the road. Wearing the helmet -with a chinstrap closed-is mandatory, as is the seat belt. You expose yourself to a withdrawal of three points and 135 Euros fine. Your helmet must be homologated and must have four retro-reflective stickers.

 

Approved gloves are also needed. In case of forgetfulness, you expose yourself to the withdrawal of a point and to 68 Euros of fine -or 45 Euros if fast payment-. Cyclist, you must have a fluorescent vest. The port is mandatory out of town, at night or in case of insufficient visibility. Children under 12 must wear a helmet. In case of non-compliance with this obligation, “adults carrying or accompanying children may be punished by a fine provided for the contraventions of the fourth class” (a fine of 135 Euros reduced to 90 Euros if you pay right away).

 

Your bike must have lights, yellow or white at the front and red at the back. A buzzer, which can be heard at least 50 meters away, is also necessary. In case of absence, you risk a fine of eleven Euros.

 

 

The SNSM – a 50-year-old alert with orange vest

The 50th anniversary of the SNSM (National Society for Rescue at Sea) drew the attention of the general public to all media. And, despite the regular spotlight on his regional training center, present here for over 30 years, some still learn his presence among us. “Many people were surprised that they were told that we were settled in Saint, the other week, during the civil security day, on the Place du Vegan,” says Vincent Milhaud, one of the trainers, also a military instructor. “Another event is our pride: the invitation of the President of the Republic to the presidential platform, July 14, with our 30 orange vests“. Like what, President Trump’s puff was not the only orange mark, in official rostrum.

 

Currently, every week-end from September to May, 18 young people, like every year, take a training of about 500 hours in sea rescue jobs, which include, in addition, 3 trips at sea. Many qualifications have the assurance of a month of work on the coasts of the metropolis or Corsica. They get: the PS1 and the PS2, the BNSSA, the coastal boat license, the SSA (surveillance and aquatic rescue), which is, in fact, a homologation of all the rescue techniques at sea. We see it, their viaticum is very solid. Many of them, afterwards, will work in the sanitary and social, will be firefighters, nurses, military, lifeguards, osteopaths, chiropractors… This training year-round is provided by about twenty trainers’ men and women, all volunteers with safety vest.

 

The quality of the SNSM’s courses is unanimously recognized and, for example, events such as Pause Guitar in Alba, on July 14 in Toulouse, or Defy Wind in Grison, the world’s largest event of its kind, call on them. In the latter case, they are not less than 40 rescuers on the lookout. Trainers and students from the center of Saint-Jewry come from a triangle Toulouse. Thomas in reflective jacket, one of them, has just been awarded the Silver Medal for Homeland Security, for 15 years of service: a recognition that makes them particularly proud of the collective work they have done.

 

 

A security kit to locate a person at sea

BAB so attaches to the wrist, ankle, on a safety vest or flat on the belt for example.

In case of emergency, simply pull on a strip to activate the device: 2 tubes which, once broken, generate a strong phosphorescent light for up to 16 hours in a row.

 

The beacon also includes a mirror strip that returns sunlight or a torch at night, a loud whistle, and an identification card of the person carrying that equipment.

 

Spot the fallen person

The electronic beacons relocate the victim, but it is the eyes that locate the person who has fallen into the water. In addition, few boaters are equipped with electronic distress beacons. For rescuers, light signaling, reflective material and fluorescent dyes are among the best ways to spot the person who has fallen into the water.

 

Technical description

Visibility: up to about 300 m at sea and beyond on land

Standard Reach storage sleeve

Life line to fix the device on the person or his equipment

High Visibility Orange Flame Standard 20471

Retro reflective strips Standard 20471

Phosphorescent tubes

Strip reflecting light (mirror effect)

Personal and medical identification tape

Linkage halyard about 1.20 meters, resistant to 150 kg traction

Whistle without ball (approx 60 dB)

Soft and rigid mat

 

To be visible with reflective vest for the road safety

The Luxembourg authorities are launching a new road safety campaign focusing on visibility. It is intended for pedestrians, joggers and vehicle drivers. “Think about it!” it is not an incentive to use your brain, to make a sensible reflection. Rather a recommendation of road safety, to be better seen on public roads, especially in conditions of unfavorable visibility.

 

“Between 2011 and 2015, nearly 65% of collisions between a vehicle and a pedestrian occurred in the dark, and in 2016, 8 pedestrians were killed on the road,” says the Ministry of Sustainable Development and Infrastructure. Also, the latter has just launched an awareness campaign on the subject, together with the road safety association and the Grand Ducal police. The operation aims at a dual objective of road safety. On the one hand, encourage vulnerable road users to make them visible: in particular by wearing light clothing and even better by using reflective accessories.

 

Also encourage drivers to redouble their attention and adapt their speed in the presence of vulnerable users. The message will first be broadcast on social media and in the media. A campaign visual will also be displayed on RGTR buses as well as on 45 road signs in Luxembourg.

 

Some tips for thinking better

Road safety offers some concrete and common-sense practices to be adopted, to be better seen on the road, at intersections and pedestrian crossings. They are aimed at both the latter, joggers and motorists.

 

Pedestrians: be visible!

Wear clothing with reflective material, armbands, jackets, reflective strips, umbrellas and reflective pads – all accessories for long-distance viewing by motorists.

Walk in front of traffic on country roads and wear the mandatory safety vest.

Consider the speed and distance of approaching vehicles. Make sure you are seen by motorists.

Put a reflective collar on your dog.

Joggers: be visible!

Wear reflective armbands and wear clothing with integrated reflective elements.

Wear a safety vest that is mandatory if you take the road out of town.

Motorists: be visible!

Light fires when visibility conditions require.

Report your maneuvers in good time.

Adapt your speed.

Make sure windows and vehicle lights are clean.

Take into account the potential errors of pedestrians in the traffic.

 

Safety Quiz for Beginners in the course

“Actually, we wanted to shoot a film first, but then we were not satisfied with the quality,” says Jens, former apprentice of Deutschland GmbH. The 22-year-old in safety vest is now a trained specialist for warehouse logistics and has already “taken” a distinction together with his six apprentice colleagues before the successful completion of his apprenticeship.

 

At the beginning of November, the trainees went to Bremen and were awarded the “Main Prize for Trainees” for their “Safety Quiz for Beginners” in the course of a festive award ceremony – a multiple-choice questionnaire that drew attention to the safety concept of the service company with its branch.

 

“We have a good 22,000 square meters of storage space on the entire site,” says Wald, deputy branch manager and responsible for the company’s trainees. From above it looks like a small town with marked streets and walkways between the high shelves. Operational, but not hectic, it goes on and yet: Again and again forklift trucks and so-called “ants” – officially: between the shelves back and forth. “This is the ‘Blue Spotlight'”, explains Michael Dairyman, trainee apprentice. The forklift trucks drive forward as well as backwards and to warn of any vehicles or pedestrians coming around the corner, this blue point is already ahead. The fact that in this environment it is necessary to develop a safety quiz for beginners is illuminated, especially since the entering of the terrain and especially the storage halls is not permitted without safety reflective vest and safety shoes.

 

“When I start at half past six in the morning, it has happened to me that I forgot to put on my warning vest,” says Jennifer Martin, an apprentice for warehouse logistics. But then a colleague had come immediately and pointed it out. “Behavior Based Safety” is the name of this apparently quite successful approach to occupational health and safety, which also has a positive influence on the behavior of employees. And Kai Hurling adds, “I always have the safety shoes under my desk.” As a trainee to the merchant for forwarding and logistics services, the warehouse is not his core business, but just like everyone else, he is fully “in the fabric”.

 

Around this topic, the questions that the trainees have devised are also turning. “We have already laughed a lot when thinking about the possibilities for answers,” they say. You can tell the quiz. Photographs were used to depict scenes which partly show questionable behavior of persons on the site. A correct answer is a solution word. Everything relatively simple and yet: You can tell that behind this quiz are a lot of dedication and above all a lot of fun. “We would definitely do it again”, the apprentices of Geodes Deutschland GmbH enthusiastically tell their project. “You just do something different and get to know the other trainees,” adds Kai Hurling in warning vest.

 

Safety vest keeps construction site safer

The use of traffic safety workers has become fashionable. Have the car drivers all become too stupid that it needs Wink manner, in order to additionally secure the clear signaling?

 

Compared to normal traffic signals, the entrance prohibition signs at the crossroads are oversized in size and placed on both sides of the road. It is also obvious for potential nearsighted drivers. A few meters after this, a traffic light that is constantly red, helps nobody to go to the building site. Nevertheless, the Basel-based civil engineering department is committed to providing a one-man field signal to a human colleague – a traffic engineer. His job: to prevent drivers with reflective vest from turning at the roundabout.

 

In most cases, Israel Keya, a transport service provider at Karoo Security, has nothing to do with, except in the hot weather under the sunshade, or every ten minutes two traffic cones to put aside the bus to the bus station and the Road immediately again. Have the car drivers all become too stupid that it needs Wink manner, in order to additionally secure the clear signaling?

 

The example is not an isolated case. In Basel on the Haulage, even a removal company was stopped by the police to promptly place two traffic safety employees in safety vest. They had the task of directing the traffic around their truck, which was half on the truck. The work would have to be stopped without delay, they said. Apparently, drivers are no longer able to master such standard situations.

Attention, site: children welcome

So, dear construction worker, now take a break and let the children ran with their reflective vest! They can also do this: tap nails into boards, put stones on mortar until it bangs, or drill holes in concrete, which it just dusts!

 

The center management of the future Holston Gallery shows heart for all the small builders who, with their parents in the past months, have observed the construction work at Neumunster’s largest building site, sometimes with a longing, and invites to the children’s construction site: May, children from 4 to 8 years of age can sometimes look around the building site, which so far they have only been able to marvel at from the outside.

 

Experts show them how to go with the plastering, walls, roofing and the carpenter, and of course the young guests are allowed to try their hand at expert craftsmanship. Helmet on, safety vest on and off you go!

 

The children get an insight into the real construction site day and may ask the accompanying masters the famous holes in the belly: What was the tallest crane? What weighs a wall concrete? Or what else is urgent to clarify.

 

The center management promises an exciting day at the construction site, with accompanying program and a small surprise. Guests go through the construction site stations in two groups, from 10 am to 2 pm and from 2 pm to 6 pm. In between there is ample time to strengthen the little builders.

 

Several teams have already signed up, but there are still vacancies. Visitors should bring solid footwear and weatherproof safety clothing. Further information as well as the registration form can be found on the Internet. Registration is possible until the following Monday, 4 May.

 

Divers in safety clothing are looking for the Isla

Officials search for evidence of an extraordinary theft series. But first, they pick up very different things. One last check: the breathing mask sits, the hoses are neatly connected and the safety seatbelt is correctly positioned. Then it goes for Wolfram Rohrabacher into the dark gray-green depth. He works at TEE, the police technical unit, which is asked for help in difficult cases. This time it is about a quite extraordinary: In summer a gang with six members in the teensier valley on the road. There the group broke again and again in hotels and pensions and captured well 40 000 euro. In early November, three men and one woman were arrested; two suspected perpetrators are still on the run.

 

Searching in the deep water is a Sisyphus work

So the work of the police continues: in the murky, she is now looking for evidence like a lever tool with which you can open doors. Rohrabacher slides slowly into the water. Wolfgang Herring is also watching. He is a dive group leader from Dachau and wears a dark whole body suit with a self-inflating life jacket around his neck, radio and service weapon in the belt. It does not dive today, but on the slippery shore the safety vest is mandatory. He knows the importance of his work: Without many evidence and DNA traces, many cases cannot be elucidated.

 

There are usually three to four divers with safety clothing in the police inflatable boat: a linen guide, the diver himself and a rescue diver, who can immediately help his colleague to help. Herring fits well on its employees. “If they are caught, they must not dive under any circumstances, because the pressure can quickly damage the eardrum,” he says. On today there is no strong current, about half a meter per second. At 2 to 3 meters visibility, searching is a Sisyphus work. No dust whirling is at any rate the goal of every diver, explains herring.

 

 

ADAC distributes safety tests to first-graders

The Federal Statistical Office recorded 28 674 injured children on Germany’s roads during the past year, 71 of which were fatal. Whether you are traveling by car, by bike or on foot, road safety is always an important issue. “If you go to school, you have to deal with traffic,” says Jorgen Lecher, member of the board of directors for traffic, environment and technology at the ADAC Hessen-Thüringen, the first-graders at the ADAC.

 

Increase visibility

Here, the 122 students each receive a child-friendly safety jacket with hood and the silhouettes of traffic detectives Felix and Frieda, which increases the visibility of the children in traffic through reflectors and the signal color neon yellow to 140 meters instead of the original 25 to 40 meters. Thus, the drivers can adjust their pace and respond in dangerous situations earlier. Since the beginning of the action five years ago, about 4.5 million safety vests were distributed in Germany to first-graders and preschoolers; in Hessen alone, this year 58,000 are at more than 1,100 schools. “Every child who is killed in traffic is one thing too much,” says Hessian Minister of Education Alexander Lora. The small ones are disadvantaged in the road traffic in many ways, for example due to their small body size and their short legs. But dark clothing also makes children often overlooked. Particularly in the dark season’s autumn and winter, eye-catching clothing is therefore essential, says Lecher. A photo is designed to illustrate the problem to the primary schoolchildren: Four of the five illustrated children wear safety vests and are very good to look at, while the fifth is barely visible. Rose-Lore Schulz, the Deputy for the Deputy for Mayor Sven Gerick, also warned the children of inattention regarding the dangers of road traffic: “You only have to think of one thing: that you will come home safely.”

 

Get to other schools

Before the children move around the row to pick up their reflective vests, they promise to wear them on a regular basis. In the coming years, more schools will be reached with the action of the ADAC Foundation “Geber Engel”, for example by means of reporting by a private television station.